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Bridgnorth Beacon Articles

Below is a list of all the articles and advertisements which appeared in the first issue of the Bridgnorth Beacon, dated 1st October 1852. The transcriptions can be viewed by clicking on the titles.

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Articles:

1. Notice to Advertisers.
2. Advertisement - Stationery
3. Advertisement - Publication
4. Advertisement - Drapery
5. Advertisement - Bookseller
6. Births, Marriages and Deaths.
7. Notice to readers and correspondents.
8. Bridgnorth Beacon - Our Title
9. Bridgnorth Beacon - Our Objects
10. Report on the Morfe Flower Show.
11. Opinion on emigration for gold-hunting.
12. Report on the harvest.
13. Local Information - Grammar School, Choral Society and Philharmonic Society
14. Local Information - School-masters' Association
15. Local Information - Quatt School
16. Local Information - Religious & Useful Knowledge Society, Mechanics Institution
17. Local Information - Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, etc.
18. Local Information - Sanitory state of the town.
19. Local Information - Militia
20. Local Information - Cholera, and the Fair
21. Petty Sessions - Conviction of Hawker
22. Police Reports - Non-payment of poor rate calls.
23. Police Reports - Drunkenness
24. Letter to the Editor
25. Letter to the Editor

    Letter Box.

    To the Editor of the Bridgnorth Beacon.

    Sir.—May I ask the favour of a small space in the first number of your paper, to congratulate the inhabitants of Bridgnorth and its neigh­bourhood, on the appearance of "The Beacon." They will doubtless feel a pleasure in giving it all the support in their power, both by advert­isements, literary contributions, and partic­ularly by promoting its circulation; that its light may, like the Beacons of old, shine far and near, but not, like them, be the signal of war and discord, but the harbinger of intelligence, peace, and good will; and not, like them, rise to blaze for a day, but to flourish and endure for an age. What interesting recollections rush into mind at the sound of that ancient word! The Beacon of yore tells of invading armadas, hostile descents, and civil feuds,—it tells of the alarms of the timid, and the fears of the unprotected; but it also tells of the bold marchings of England’s courageous yeomen, of her knights and archers, who so well upheld her cause and vindicated her honor and her rights. The Beacon of to-day will, I hope, be the organ of civilization, of refinement, aye, and of trade,—free and protected. It will be gladly received that every man’s home. The man of business will welcome it for its advert­isements, the scholar for its literature, and the general reader for the local and national news, information, &c. &c. which you may collect for their entertainment; while its moderate price cannot but recommend it to the economist. And now, Sir, allow me to say that, you will greatly mistake the duties of your position, if you make not the subject and object of education as prominent as at all times, they deserve to be. Its friends will hail with satisfaction your efforts to advance the great and good work,—as will

    Your obliged and humble Servant,

    H. D.

26. Letter to the Editor
27. General Information - England - Politics and the death of the Iron Duke
28. General Information - England - the Advantages of Free Trade.
29. General Information - England - A Royal Teacher.
30. General Information - England - Proposals for new ocean vessels.
31. General Information - Ireland - Erin go Bragh
32. General Information - Ireland - Tenant right.
33. General Information - Ireland - An Irish Mother (a pig tale).
34. General Information - Scotland
35. General Information - America
36. General Information - America - Christianity among the Jews
37. General Information - America - Drinking pact.
38. Ecclesiastical Information
39. Ecclesiastical Information - Methodism, Convocation and the Vicarage of Shiffnal
40. The Press - The Duke of Wellington
41. Literary Extracts - Advice to Theologians
42. Literary Extracts - Fasting Extraordinary (An account of the process for electing new Bailiffs)
43. Literary Extracts - Habits of a Man of Business.
44. Poetry - Introduction.
45. Poetry - The Buried Flower
46. Poetry - The Nightingale
47. Serapiana - Random facts and information.
48. Serapiana - Prescriptions for moods and fits.
49. Serapiana - Anecdote on annexation.
50. Serapiana - Anecdote on the rewards of honesty.
51. Serapiana - An unfinished ode, and printer's notes.

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